You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The graph shows the number of people taking parts in 4 kinds of sports in a particular region between 1985 and 2005. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words. Writing Task 1

The line graph displays the proportion of four types of sports

taken

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played

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by individuals between 1985 and 2005.

Overall

, rugby witnessed the wildest decrease from the highest to the lowest position, whilst the remaining kinds of sports were relatively stable. Two activities, which are basketball and badminton, were static through all given years. For basketball, the

number

of people, who were attending it, was approximately 75. Despite

this

, the badminton

number

was slightly less and differed only by 25 with basketball, which was around 50 all the time.

However

, the other two left activities were more unstable, than the previous ones. They crossed in 1995 and had the same

number

of people, which was 200. The rugby dropped from merely under 250 in 1985 to the lowest

number

in 2005, which was 50.

Nevertheless

, tennis steadily increased from 150 in 1985 to just over 200 in 2005, which led to the biggest

number

among other given sports.